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The Mohawk Nation Drummer was a newspaper published in the Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory.

File contains a typescript history of the Mohawk of Tyendinaga 1784-1960.

Celia File's description of her life as a teacher at the Central Mohawk School on the Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory, where she worked for six years from 1921.

File contains a newspaper article concerning the Tyendinaga Mohawk claim to Foresters' Island in the Bay of Quinte, in 1968.

File contains a printed bulletin of the Departments of History and Political and Economic Science, Queen's University, entitled "Captain John Deserontyou and the Mohawk Settlement at Deseronto" by M. Eleanor Herrington. The bulletin was published in 1921 and recounts the history of the early settlement of Tyendinaga. Also contains a letter to the editor of the Ontario Intelligencer explaining the origins of Captain John Deseronto [Deserontyou's] name.

This collection comprises documents received in response to an Access to Information request addressed to Indian and Northern Affairs Canada (INAC) by the Corporation of the Town of Deseronto, Ontario, in 2008. The request asked for copies of documentation submitted as part of the Culbertson Tract land claim of the Mohawks of the Bay of Quinte and upon which the decision to allow the claim had been based.

The documents in this collection are all photocopies of materials located in public archives in Canada. The materials range in date from 1779 to 1959 and record the interactions between the Mohawks of the Bay of Quinte and the British and Canadian governments, in relation to lands, from the time of their departure from the Mohawk Valley to the mid-twentieth century.